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Bye-bye, Hustle It’s been a great eight years.

Breaking the fourth wall I’m glad the final Hustle had a taste of the first series, with Mickey breaking the fourth wall. But I still miss those Timeslice sequences. Surely they could have just made one?

Backwards again What is it with British shows and having stuff around the wrong way? First it was Mad Dogs, now it’s Hustle. A desire to drive on the other side of the road, like they expected in UFO?

Kelly Adams pic-spam time The real-life Mr Kennedy is a very lucky man. This toy tiger is pretty lucky as well.

Kelly Adams pic-spam time One more week of this goodness to go. Naff episode, using the old yawn-a-minute “disability” gag (where one of the lead characters has some issue that prevents him from having the same abilities as usual).

Hustle moves to Brum Pretty sure this publicity pic only exists to show off Kelly Adams’s legs. From the exterior of the very unrealistic ‘London Airport’ location, somewhere in Birmingham.

Last year on Hustle Hustle publicity photograph from 2010, from Film Review Online. This was the very unconvincing ‘London Airport’ set—some office building in Birmingham.

Really, it wasn’t Birmingham! Since last season, Hustle relied on opening and closing scenes in London, bookending each episode as if to say, ‘Honest, it was London all along, promise!’

jazdamen:

Watched Hustle last night and Loved it. So glad its back on again :’)

Let Brum be Brum Last Friday’s episode was great, but probably because they were happy to show off Birmingham. Season 6 and the opener for season 7 felt, on the whole, cheap—because they were too busy trying to pretend Birmingham was London, and not revelling in the locations. (Remember the “airport” in season 6? How bad did that look?) Bit like those old ITC shows like Department S or The Saint. I say: just set it in Brum—we had Hustle episodes in Los Angeles, didn’t we? It’s not like the city is integral to the plot—we watch it for the cons and the acting.

(Source: broldencantsing)